Improvement in lard-lamps



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Lard Lamp.

Patented Aug. 14, 1866.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TIMOTHY TERREL, OF SPRING HILL, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN LARo-LAMPs,

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,215, dated August 14, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY TERREL, of Spring Hill, Ohampa-ign county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lard-Lamps; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accom pan yin g drawing, forming part of this specification.

The drawing represents a vertical section of my invention.

This invention relates to a new and improved lamp for burning lard and other similar dense hydrocarbons.

The invention consists in a novel manner of securing or arranging the wick Within the fountain, whereby the wick may be raised and lowered with the greatest facility.

A represents the body or fountain of the lamp, and B the standard thereof, connected to a base, 0.

Within the body or fountain A there is fitted centrally a horizontal shaft, D, on which a toothed wheel, E, is fitted. This shaft and wheel are allowed to turn freely within the lamp-body or fountain, and the teeth a of the wheel are of oblique or ratchet shape, as shown clearly in the drawing, the ends of the teeth being quite near theinner surface of the body or founta'gi, which is of cylindrical form.

The body or fountain has a door or lid, b, at its upper or top part, and also has a nozzle, through which the wick F passes down into the body or fountain, between the wheel E and the side of theformer, as plainly shown in the drawing.

By raising the lid b the wheel E maybe turned by pressing laterally upon it with the finger, and the wick F raised or lowered, as may be desired.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A lamp for burning lard and other similar substances, having a cylindrical body or fountain, A, with a toothed wheel, E, fitted eoncentrically within it on a horizontal shaft, D, to act upon the wick F, substantially as herein shown and described.

TIMOTHY TERREL.

Witnesses:

BENJAMIN DAVIS, J. S. CRAIG. 

